noun.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
noun.
Obsolete form of bree (which see).
To produce as a beverage by fermentation; prepare (beer, ale, or other similar liquor) from malt, or from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
To prepare by mixing, boiling, or the like; mingle; mix; concoct: as, to brew a bowl of punch; “drinks brewed with several herbs,”
To contrive; plot; prepare: as, to brew mischief.
To conduct the operations or the business of brewing or making beer.
To be in a state of preparation; be mixing, forming, or collecting; be impending: chiefly in the present participle: as, a storm is brewing in the west.